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Susan Aizenberg Cortland, 1970 L'Heure Bleue Nights Mutable as Water Revise Themselves into the Shape of Our Extravagant Past
Erica Dawson OCD Placebo
Norman Dubie The Book of Crying Kanglings from The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake
Juliana Gray Woman in the I-65 Rest Stop
T. R. Hummer For Dancers Only: Suite for Jimmie Lunceford, 1902-1947
Christian Kiefer Widow’s Walk
Melissa Koosmann After Science Ode Overheard What the Dead Deserved
Larry Levis Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage The Space
Louise Mathias Autumn Sequester Blue Agnostic
Kate Northrop Inside the Room Unfinished Landscape with a Dog
Kathleen Peirce From Inside From Underneath From the Middle Measure
Allan Peterson Requiem
Reginald Shepherd Doppelganger Music Self-Portrait in the New World Order
Lisa Russ Spaar Lullabye New Year’s Eve The Insomnia of Hildegard of Bingen
Gerald Stern Just Say Goodbye to Mother May 30 Richard
Amy Tudor Self-Portrait with Eyes Closed Untitled, with Peonies in Bloom
G. C. Waldrep Canticle for the Second Sunday in Lent What Begins Bitterly Becomes Another Love Poem
Tony Whedon Impermanence